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Farming
Transportation
Minerals
Industrial Lifestyle
Labor Unions
100
The product that tripled in production over 30 years in the late 1800's.
What is Cotton
100
The form of transportation that allowed businesses to trade their products North, in the late 1800's.
What is Railroads
100
Coal, oil, and natural gas are all ______________
What is fossil fuels?
100
The most popular way of living Texans had during the late 1800's through the early 1900's
What is Rural Lifestyle?
100
A movement for fair working conditions, fair working hours, and a living wage.
What is a Labor Union
200
A commonly used fossil fuel that replaced lumber in train engines
What is coal?
200
People who lived in Urban Areas tended to work in _______.
What is Factories?
200
Labor Unions organized ______, in which employees stopped working.
What is strikes?
300
A commonly used form of mining that destroyed the environment.
What is strip mining?
300
True or False: 10% of Texans worked in factories during industrialization.
What is False
300
Labor Union strikes often lead to _____
What is violence?
400
A form of transportation that allowed products to be kept fresh.
What is the refrigerated train car?
400
Raw material that Texas is void of.
What is iron?
400
True or False: The average Texas labor employee gets paid less than the average U.S. worker.
What is True?
400
True or False: Labor Unions existed in Texas before the Civil War.
What is False
500
The most famous farming byproduct.
What is cottonseed oil?
500
Major breakthrough in fossil fuels for Texas in the early 1900's.
What is natural gas?
500
Industrial growth in Texas created a new class of ________ or a person who earns their pay regularly for their labor or services.
What is wage earner?
500
The largest Labor Union.
What is Knights of Labor